On the first day of Christmas my true love said to me

Rip up the chariot

Forget about the telly

Let's play scratch cards

Coins out to scratching

Everybody laughing better not be cheating

And the chance to win a pound or three

Add some play to Christmas

With scratch cards from the National Lottery. Please gift

responsibly rules and procedures apply. Players and gifters must be 18 or over. And the choice to win a pound or three.

This week, how the nuclear bomb changed the stories we tell about scientists.

The idea that science and technology could bring about the end of the world was psychologically

hugely powerful.

And Ebola is finally on the wane.

But what can we learn for future epidemics?

Sometimes people ask me, what do I think the next big pandemic or epidemic is going to be?

And I always answer, it's the one that nobody ever thought of.

It's the one that nobody ever imagined.

Plus, working out how organisms reproduced over half a billion years ago.

I'm Noah Baker.

And I'm Adam Levy.

17. half a billion years ago. I'm Noah Baker. And I'm Adam Levy. 70 years ago this week, the US military dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city Hiroshima.

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